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The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740

By Stephen Darwall

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0521451671, 9780521451673, 0521457823, 9780521457828
LCC
B1131 .D37 1995
Open Library ID
OL1097302M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3306569 bytes)
Pages
369\0
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This book is a major work in the history of ethics, and provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades. Professor Darwall discerns two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, there is the empirical, naturalist tradition, comprising Hobbes, Locke, Cumberland, Hutcheson, and Hume, which argues that obligation is the practical force that empirical discoveries acquire in the process of deliberation. On the other hand, there is the group including Cudworth, Shaftesbury, Butler, and in some moments Locke, which views obligation as inconceivable without autonomy and which seeks to develop a theory of the will as self-determining.

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